The Venture Outdoors Downtown TriAnglers will hold their annual awards ceremony on the North Shore in front of PNC Park at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Weekly fishing for the season will conclude. Oct. 25.

Prizes will be awarded to the top anglers in a number of categories, including biggest fish and most species caught.

The TriAnglers have landed twice as many fish this year as last, with 132 fishermen catching 694 fish. For more information, visit www.ventureoutdoors.org.

Ribbon cut

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission representatives, Fairview Township officials and others cut the ribbon Wednesday on a 3.5 acre tract of prime property in Erie that will be known as Avonia Beach Park.

The real estate, acquired in part with Lake Erie stamp revenues, sits across from Trout Run, the steelhead trout nursery water, and has 450 feet of frontage on Lake Erie. It is one of Erie's most popular steelhead spots.

Tons of trash

The Lake Erie shoreline and streams -- plagued this year by E-Coli bacteria -- recently yielded 7,700 pounds of trash in a three-hour sweep. Close to 600 volunteers in the Pennsylvania-Lake Erie International Coastal Cleanup collected cigarette butts, food wrappers, plastic bottles, tires and other debris as well as a litter of kittens, an abandoned car and a message in a bottle at the Erie Bluffs.

Stockings

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently stocked muskie fingerlings in the Youghiogheny River, Loyalhanna Lake and Lake Somerset, channel catfish fingerlings on Lower, Middle and Upper Deer lakes, North Park Lake, Lower and Upper Hereford Manor lakes, Raccoon Lake, Canonsburg Lake and Peters Lake. Paddlefish were stocked in the Ohio River.